View from my window..first snow

Woke to grey, dull, Monday morning in Beijing to see the first snow of the season fall. Traffic snarled up and everyone late into the office. Makes you feel right at home.


















Today's paper said that Beijing's population had reached 17.5M.

The local government is building new subway lines, criss-crossing the city, as fast as they can. The north-south number 5 line opened last month and ticket prices were reduced by a third to 2RMB (0.20 euro cents) for a single journey anywhere on the network, to encourage greater usage.



But the Beijingers love for the car runs deep with more than 1,000 new cars sold every day. It's amazing that anyone makes it into work at all.